The Miami Herald
Wednesday, June 18, 2008 - 00:00
WASHINGTON --
The framework under which detainees were imprisoned for years without charges at Guantanamo and in many cases abused in Afghanistan wasn't the product of American military policy or the fault of a few rogue soldiers.
It was largely the w
Wednesday, June 18, 2008 - 00:00
Bush administration officials hailed a United Nations report released Wednesday showing that world cocaine production remained flat in 2007 compared with 2006, even though cultivation of the coca leaf in Colombia alone showed a ''shocking'' increase.
Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 00:00
The leadership in Washington should not wait until the likes of Patana and de la Cruz, who enjoy the support of the Morales government, follow through with threats to burn down an embassy
Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 00:00
GARDEZ, Afghanistan --
Mohammed Naim Farouq was a thug in the lawless Zormat district of eastern Afghanistan. He ran a kidnapping and extortion racket, and he controlled his turf with a band of gunmen who rode around in trucks with AK-47 rifles.
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 00:00
The United States said Monday that its ambassador to Bolivia will return to Washington for consultations after violent protests last week in La Paz.
The U.S. government expects Bolivia to continue to meet its international obligations to protect the Em
Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 00:00
BUENOS AIRES --
Thousands of Argentines poured into the streets late Monday, banging pots and honking car horns to demand the government resume talks to end a 100-day farmers strike that has blocked grain exports and emptied supermarket shelves of food.
Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 00:00
SAO PAULO, Brazil --
U.S. presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain supports ending subsidies for U.S. ethanol production and would back Brazil's inclusion on an expanded United Nations Security Council, a Brazilian newspaper reported Sunday.
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 00:00
MADRID, Spain --
Mexico and Spain are calling for an easing of sanctions against Cuba in light of recent reforms by the island's communist government.
Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero says the European Union should fully lift sancti
Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 00:00
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil --
Grain crushers have extended a two-year-old moratorium on the purchase of soybeans planted in areas of the Amazon rain forest cut down after 2006, Brazil's environment minister said Tuesday.
Monday, June 16, 2008 - 00:00
WARMIWANUSCA, Peru --
Porters on the famed Inca Trail trek to the jungle-shrouded ruins of Machu Picchu recall the fleet-footed chasqui -- Inca messengers who darted over the vast road network of South America's most powerful empire.
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